Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures
Subtitle: Rabindranath Tagore and W. B. Yeats
Publisher: Clemson University Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781949979077
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Literature and transnationalism; History; Littérature et transnationalisme; Histoire; Literature: history & criticism; Literary Criticism; General
Description: This book examines W.B. Yeats's and Rabindranath Tagore's literary engagements with identity, nationalism, and the literary and cultural traditions of Ireland and India. It offers a critical perspective on their work in the twentieth century, when their international collaborations most significantly influence the cross-border lives of their literature.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Contents; title: Acknowledgments; title: Abbreviations; title: Introduction: ""Poets are weaving for you a web; title: 1 Paternalism and Nationalism in Tagore's Writings; title: 2 Yeats and the Purgatorial, Hierarchal Model; title: 3 Hellenic Beauties and Marginalized Women: Disrupting Social Models; title: 4 "Of all the many changing things" : Representing the Child; title: Coda: Tagore and Yeats in the Twenty-first Century; title: Notes; title: Index